Maybe MouseKeys — numeric keypad as a mouse replacement is what you need. Alt+Shift+NumLock and Shift+NumLock both can be used to (de)activate this feature on Lupu 525 (I didn't test it on other Puppies). It works but something is wrong with acceleration.

I don't remember that well because it was a while ago, but I do remember that it didn't do the job that well, at most it let you select between a couple of buttons on a menu. If it would have worked well I would have used it.

It comes already installed in some Puppies, and there are packages for others.

May I ask what to you need it for? I originally wanted it because most Puppies have poor support for Macbook touchpads, then I found FatDog64 600, which works very well on Macs, and lost interest in trying to emulate the buttons.

That's interesting about fatdog - I have been looking at some of the external touchpads designed for MAC (they are beautiful..) and I think they would be a great alternative to a mouse. And with the tap-to-click function turned off it would be a good way to separate the "pointer motion" from the "clicking" if I added a second mouse modified to only have the click button function on it. That way I could reduce the chance of my dad dragging icons and folders where they should not be.

Actually I used FatDog64 on a Macbook with a button, to activate the other button you hold two fingers on the touchpad while you click, I think you could even get the third button with three fingers (Ubuntu works the same way).

But FatDog64 is the only Puppy version that works with the Mac touchpad and doesn't have the tap on, all the other versions the touchpad either doesn't work at all or the tap is always on because flsynclient doesn't work properly with macs on them, which can really drive you up the wall.

Although I don't know if you're going to have much luck with this. You can set Puppy to use single clicks only on its own o.s., but you're talking internet stuff (in the other thread). I'm not sure though.

Thanks seaside. Xdotool looks very interesting. My scripting ability is in it's infancy (actually pre-embryonic is a better word...) but I will dig up some xdotool tutorials and see what is possible.

EDIT: I think what I would need to do is:
1) Assign F9 key (which is the key I want to use as my "doubleclick" function) as a hotkey to run xdotool script.
2) Execute xdotool script that emulates the key sequence which activates Mousekeys function of xorg (ie: "shift numlock"), delays x milliseconds, then emulates depression of "+" key.

- one issue for me to figure out is how I differentiate between "+" on the numeric keypad and "+" on the "=" key. I shall look into this more closely.

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